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OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices

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271 points pykello | 3 comments | 08 Sep 25 16:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.601s | source
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zokier ◴[08 Sep 25 18:44 UTC] No.45172139[source]▶
I love OpenWrt.

But I wished there was something similar but for "big" (in a relative sense) devices. I feel lot of the constraints OpenWrt is based on are not really that applicable when you have hundreds of megabytes of flash and RAM, and that is starting to become a common thing for routers these days. Even their own OpenWrt One router has 256M flash and a full gigabyte of RAM. That is not all that resource constrained anymore. What I would love is to have something that would be closer to "normal" linux distro while getting the networking goodies and ease of configuration from OpenWrt.

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thisislife2 ◴[08 Sep 25 21:53 UTC] No.45174523[source]▶
I have the opposite complaint. I wish OpenWRT ran on low-resource routers like those really cheap TP-link ones. DD-WRT does support a few of it, and my personal opinion is that it is better optimised than OpenWRT. By the way, you should explore OpenBSD ( https://openbsdrouterguide.net/ ).
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1. imiric ◴[09 Sep 25 20:46 UTC] No.45188766[source]▶
Thanks for the OpenBSD guide.

Do you know whether 10Gb NICs are supported in OpenBSD, and can the link be fully saturated?

I'd be interested in building a DIY router on OpenBSD, but I need support for 10Gb SFP+, with an upgrade path beyond that.

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2. thisislife2 ◴[10 Sep 25 00:44 UTC] No.45191642[source]▶
Yes. Support is there for some 10Gb Intel devices ( https://man.openbsd.org/ix.4 ) and Broadcom devices ( https://man.openbsd.org/bnxt.4 ) including SFP+.
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3. imiric ◴[10 Sep 25 10:36 UTC] No.45195750[source]▶
Great, thanks!